Job 1:11
But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Job 4:5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Psalms 105:15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
Matthew Henry on Job 1:7-13
Satan before God; Satan Permitted to Afflict Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan came also among them. 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord , and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and… Read the whole commentary →